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PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...
...Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing, he takes up the hardly more stable trade of singing in night clubs. Sing You Sinners is thus no preachment for the typically American virtues, but it is tolerable comedy, jigging playfully from farce to melodrama like a kite with no tail...
...Humphrey centers the first line, flanked by Dud Humphrey and Dave Boles; the defense features John Gibson and Doc Howe with towering George Seabury and Clem Kite as spares. Harry Holt, another sensational sophomore, will try to duplicate his fine performance in the nets. The second line has Paul Gillespie at center and Fred Burr and Ed Toland on the wings. Dave Rodd, Bill Barnes and Cy Vance make up the third line...
Higher than a kite, Sage says, "Holt 'em Yale: John 6, Eli 3"--Burr, it's cold in this Barnes...
...Kite's activities, which they all knew. By her own admission, she had smashed slot machines out of pique, because Alton officials last May had closed down a dice game her husband Dan was running...